Past public lectures

2015

Corporate Boards: facts and myths

Speaker: Professor Daniel Ferreira

15th January 2015, 6:30pm. Hong Kong Theatre, LSE

Corporate Boards are a central part of a firm’s governance structure, and receive regulatory attention in the attempt to improve firm performance. What do we really know about corporate boards, and why should we take an interest? Learn more.

2014

• The changing face of financial intermediation and the second phase of global liquidity
  6 October
• Giving Guidance On Future Monetary Policy In A Very Uncertain World
  30 September

2013

• 8 May The bankers' new clothes: what's wrong with banking and what to do about it
• 30 April Doing well by doing good? Private equity investing in emerging markets
• 11 March Unintended Consequences of the New Financial Regulations

2012

• 11 October What I learned by doing Capitalism
• 31 January Dealing with the EU Crisis: the role and responsibility of the banks
   

2011

• 24 February Best Ideas: can fund managers beat the market?
• 24 May The Future of Finance: the LSE report
• 2 November LSE Perspectives on the Sovereign Debt Crisis

2010

• 7 December Economic Sciences as Mostly a Procrustean Bed
• 27 September Private Equity: leverage dexpertise or leveraged bets?
• 30 June Too Big to Fail: the aftermath and what next?
• 25 May A Manifesto for Giant Funds – Resolving the Dysfunctionality of Finance
• 17 February Jimmy Stewart Is Dead - Ending the World's Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking

2009

• 19 October The Future of Banking and Financial Regulation
• 20 May Animal Spirits: how human psychology drives the economy, and why it matters for global capitalism by Professor Robert J. Shiller
• 17 March  European Financial Regulation and the Financial Crisis by Dr. Mario Nava, Head of the "Financial Market Infrastructure" Unit of The European Commission

2008

• 6 June Financial Market Stability by Axel A Weber, President of Deutsche Bundesbank

2007

• 6 November GAM Gilbert De Botton Award Lecture: governments, markets and climate change by Lord Nicholas Stern (IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, LSE)
• 18 June BP visiting professor lecture in summer term titled 'Liquidity, Asset Prices and Market Efficiency' by Professor Jiang Wang (MIT)